>>>>> On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 19:01:05 -0700 (MST) >>>>> "Alex" == Alex Belits <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Alex> Alex> On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Alexander Kotelnikov wrote: Alex> Alex> What all of you are talking about? Most X servers won't even start if Alex> the font alias "fixed" isn't defined, so "fixed", not "*-fixed-*" should Alex> be the last-resort fallback. Most of people have it set to the default Alex> fixed font with iso8859-1 charset, and some (me, for example) to the same Alex> with local charset (koi8-r in my case). *-fixed-* on my box also returns Alex> "-jis-fixed-medium-r-normal--0-0-75-75-c-0-jisx0208.1983-0", so it's Alex> hardly an uncommon setup. >> >> Thpe problem is that >> 1. "fixed" is not a valid basename Alex> Alex> So? This is the fallback font, the goal is just to get anything that Alex> is likely to be readable.
if a string is not a valid basename no XFontSet will be created Alex> >> 2. "fixed" could be of not desired charset as "*-fixed-*" is for you. >> Alex> Alex> "fixed" _might_ be of not desired charset. "*-fixed-*" almost always Alex> isn't, unless the only available charset is the one desired, what Alex> automatically makes "fixed" optimal. All this issue is about fontsets. Fontset do not have a charset. It can have one, but it can have dosen. So I do not understand what are you talking about. -- Alexander Kotelnikov Saint-Petersburg, Russia -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL:http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm-workers" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
